He ll go down in history as nothing but a poisoner, Navalny said of Putin on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, the Kremlin has denied involvement as leaders worldwide, including President Joe Biden, have demanded answers and condemned Navalny s detention.
Navalny spoke about all of this and more in his remarks in court on Tuesday. Later in the day, Navalny was sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison.
Read the full speech below, which was translated into English by Meduza:
I would like to begin by discussing the legal issue here, which seems to me to be paramount and a bit overlooked in this discussion. There are two people sitting right there and one of them is saying: let s lock up Navalny because he showed up [to meet with his parole officers] on Mondays, not Wednesdays. And the other says: let s lock up Navalny because he didn t show up immediately after coming out of his coma. But I would like everyone to remember that the essence of this trial is to lock me up over a case in which I wa
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